Sarah Demille Email & Phone Number

• Find, review and screen potential procurement opportunities
• Coordination and management of the project response lifecycle from intake screenings, through proposal development, and to the final deliverable end product
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify key activities and milestones and coordinate project responses
• Create and prepare written content for project responses, ensuring content accuracy and format consistency
• Creation and maintenance of a response verbiage library
• Develop, maintain, and update branded templates across a variety of programs

• Current and/or recent work includes DFTBA Games, GM Canada, and Spafax
• Write clear and concise copy material that is engaging and attention-grabbing
• Edit copy for consistency with various style guides (including CP Style) as well as spelling and grammatical errors and flow of content
• Check factual assertions in publications to determine veracity of the statements
• Skills related to the position include strong research abilities, excellent communication skills, ability to handle multiple deadlines concurrently, strong grasp of the English language in both written and oral form

Toronto, Canada Area

• Collaborated with the Business Development Team to identify key messages and prepare written content for proposals and other special projects
• Created copy for marketing materials, news releases, advertising, website, and internal communications
• Coordinated proposals/projects independently between different departments within the company
• Communicated with senior management team and worked closely with the Marketing Specialist to ensure corporate key messages were contained throughout prepared materials
• Acted as a resource to the Business Development and Marketing Teams by reviewing and editing material before submission to clients

Whitby

• Responsible for responding to Requests for Proposals and working to ensure that all written responses are addressed and properly formatted
• Crafts concise and engaging content that informs potential new clients of Swish's abilities and selling features
• Works closely with the bids team to develop content and successfully bring in new business for the company
• Provide account assistance to sales representatives
• Utilize resources such as Equifax and ePORT to ensure credit worthiness of potential customers
• Responsible for content creation for company blog, as well as writing and editing various pieces of company literature and developing a strong verbiage library for use with tender submissions, print and digital media.

• Collaborate with the venue press manager to ensure the smooth operation of press services on venue
• Managing press spaces such as the Venue Media Centre, the mixed zone where athletes are interviewed, the media lounge and the press tribunes where press view the competition, and managing the press operations crew on.
• Accountable for providing key support to the venue press manager and ensuring smooth press operations on venue
• Responsible for managing the overall flow and operations of the mixed zone where athletes are interviewed upon exiting the competition area
• Responsible for managing the workroom and help desk in the Venue Media Centre and answering all media inquiries
• Manage the access and operations of the press tribunes (seating or viewing areas) where media will work while watching the competition

• Collaborated with colleagues to form social media team that boosted reader interactivity and traffic
• Built content into the content management system using basic HTML skills
• Created SEO-friendly web headlines, subheads, meta tags and content that attracts traffic while holding editorial value
• Responsible for interviewing, fact-checking and copy editing content for the web and newsletters
• Optimized and copyedited text using SEO tools such as Google AdWords and Google Insights
• Responsible for sourcing and editing brand-appropriate images from online stock agencies

• Held various leadership positions within the newspaper staff
• Collaborated with fellow staff members to research, conduct interviews, write and edit articles, design layout, print, and distribute the newspaper
• Worked with staff to ensure accompanying website was up to date and well designed

Hon. B.A., Journalism, English Literature, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: 2008-2009 Frosh Orientation Group Leader,

Journalism